Bug 18385

Summary:	sawfish (and possibly other ebuilds) have their dependencies setup incorrectly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cameron Lerch <lerchc>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Brad Cowan (RETIRED) <bcowan>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cameron Lerch 2003-03-28 14:20:50 UTC

From sawfish-1.3.ebuild:

DEPEND=">=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.12.0
>=x11-libs/rep-gtk-0.17
=dev-libs/librep-0.16*
>=media-libs/imlib-1.9.10-r1
media-libs/audiofile
>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.8
esd? ( >=media-sound/esound-0.2.22 )
readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-4.1 )
nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"

I haven't really played with ebuild files very much, but I noticed a problem
when qpkg -q wasn't picking up sawfish dependencies. I.e. qpkg -I -q rep-gtk
would show nothing. From the ebuild documentation, it appears as though DEPENDS
are build dependencies, and RDEPEND are run-time dependencies. Shouldn't (most
of?) these be RDEPENDs? I have noticed this elsewhere as well, but I'll wait and
see if I'm actually on the right page with this. Let me know.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sawfish (and others)
2. check out their RDEPEND file -- nothing.
3. this breaks qpkg (and possibly other tools)

Actual Results:  
RDEPEND empty even though there are runtime dependencies

Expected Results:  
RDEPEND lists runtime dependencies

Again, I have noticed this in other ebuilds as well. I would assume that RDEPEND
is a newer-type var and possibly many packages weren't upgraded to use it?

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-28 18:24:37 UTC

       RDEPEND
              This  should  contain  a list of all packages that
              are required for this program to run (aka  runtime
              depend).   If this is not set, then it defaults to
              the value of DEPEND.
              You may use the same syntax to  vary  dependencies
              as seen above in DEPEND.

Comment 2 Cameron Lerch 2003-03-28 18:56:20 UTC

Hmm.. shouldn't this list the DEPENDs then?

lerchc@skylab:/var/db/pkg/x11-wm/sawfish-1.2$ cat RDEPEND
 !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch )
lerchc@skylab:/var/db/pkg/x11-wm/sawfish-1.2$

What am I seeing here?

Comment 3 Brad Cowan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-05 01:57:13 UTC

marking invalid